Topic: Worst video game box art

Yeah, a lot of the Sega Master System boxarts are pretty boring and terrible, such as Enduro Racer's boxart, VERY exciting boxart.

Definitely Mega Man I's boxart.
@wiiplayer - wow, that is some weird boxart. I'm interested in Valis III. I watched Valis77's Let's Play on YouTube, admittedly.

My personal favourite:

In the tradition of Master System covers, there is the Konami's Best release of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for the DS. Instead of just adding a "Konami's Best" label to the original cover art, they used a photo of the original case. They also reprinted the ESRB and Konami logos, even though they were still perfectly readable from the original cover.

Ah yes, this "game". the AVGN's review of this is hillarious

Enough Said

Seriously, Mega Man's box art is such a typical answer. Now if we're talking recent crappy Box art, then this takes the cake.
What a bland, colorless crappy cop out cover which appeals to the Soccer Moms and videogame newcomers

http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/pro_wrestling_b...

It's safe to say that the Sega Master System had thee' worst Box art designs of all time. Mega Man's is golden compared to those ugly depressing bland pieces of trash

This reminds me of an article on 1Up.com
The headless wrestler locking what I'm guessing is his own disembodied head is kind of funny though.

@Starfox That is a pretty crap-tastically made video, not even any elevator music.

@Donatello Actually, when i first saw the Mario Kart Wii box art, i loved it. I thought it was refreshing, almost avant-garde. I liked how it really showed off the hardware in a very simplistic was, instead of trying to have fakey action-packed crashing and "hardcore" lettering.

What always got me, even more so than some of the old NES covers, is the box art for PC games/console games that were in the "fifth" generation when 3D first came into play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpse_Killer

maybe its just me, but everything about this cover is poorly done, not just the bad CGI (the lighting alone it terrible, this came out 4 years after Terminator 2, wasn't CGI for games at least better than this? at least force a better mock-up for the box art).

of course, nothing beats the NA cover for Ico, which is just sad when compared to the artistic Japanese original.

http://i40.tinypic.com/33dz0c2.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ico

I can't think of a boxart that I think is worse. But maybe some time if I'll figure out which one it is.

I'll have to find a picture for Phalanax (SNES). That had the worst box art ever, so much so that I ignored the game because of it.

You forget - Mega Man as a series and as a character had yet to reach the recognition and popularity it gained later. Back when the art was produced, it was just another regular game. Now sure, as Mega Man art, it is clearly the worst of the whole series. But at the time it was originally released, there was a lot more bad artwork than that.

Partially on account of the safecracker looking like "Toadfish" Rebecchi from Neighbours (Australian soap opera).

Well back when he first appeared in the show, thats almost the type of thing he would have been doing.

I don't watch the show anymore.